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...“I used to feel that [art advisers] were an unnecessary, and rather irritating, encumbrance,” says Jacob Twyford, senior director of Waddington Custot in Mayfair....
...At New York Fashion Week in September, Fendi celebrated the 25th anniversary of its best-selling Baguette bag with a dazzling ready-to-wear show designed by Kim Jones and Marc Jacobs, a front row stacked...
...To create the heavy lashes, Kendal put thick coats of mascara (a mixture of Mac Haute & Naughty Too Black Lash and Marc Jacobs Velvet Noir) on false eyelashes before placing on eyelids....
...Jeanne-Bathilde Lacourt, its curator of modern art, is with Alex Susanna the co-curator of The Great Naive Masters....
...1 Gucci Leather bomber jacket, £1,900, gucci.com 2 Marc Jacobs Embellished shell midi dress, £3,620, net-a-porter.com 3 Isabel Marant Metallic coated cotton ‘Jeanne’ miniskirt, £290, net-a-porter.com...
...“Madame Grès, Coco Chanel, Nina Ricci, Jeanne Lanvin....
...The move by the Treasury came after a US senator, New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, introduced a bill in April to have one of four women — Tubman, Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller, the first...
Kitsch, colourful, cute – wacky mobile cases have become a serious business
...on the men’s runways for summer at the shows of sartorial heavyweights Hermès, Bottega Veneta, Salvatore Ferragamo and Valentino; and it cropped up again for autumn at Lanvin, Trussardi and Marc by Marc Jacobs...
...Eyebrows were raised when Anna Wintour was photographed recently in a Prada fur coat bearing the image of a face, one of Jeanne Detallante’s “Beauty Masks”....
...They still own 49 per cent of the group, after selling a 51 per cent stake in 2010 to L Capital and Florac, an investment company controlled by Marie-Jeanne Meyer, the former head of French trading company...
...Marc Jacobs offered a double whammy – twinning his wasp-waist dress with ruched gloves in gun metal grey at Louis Vuitton, and his daydresses with pale silk gloves at his eponymous mainline collection....
...British designers (John Galliano, Phoebe Philo) work at French brands (Dior, Céline), as do Americans and Israelis (Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton; Alber Elbaz at Lanvin)....
...And even more interesting…why three designers who work for Mr Arnault (Dior’s Galliano, Fendi’s Lagerfeld and Vuitton’s Marc Jacobs) plus one more on the “Next Establishment List” (Celine’s Phoebe Philo)...
...Meanwhile at Louis Vuitton, designer Marc Jacobs created polyester skirts and knitwear, and at Lanvin almost half of the new women’s wear collection was made from the material....
...Jeanne Sloane, head of Christie’s New York silver department, has noticed that younger collectors seek out wine items from the aesthetic movement to Scandinavian modern....
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